This report is a reflection on the location of market places in the Roman era, with reference to their accessibility from inside as well as outside the city. The first part of the article analyses the category most easily identifiable as a market place, the macellum. Examples are proposed, documenting the central position of this building in the Roman towns and the close connection with fo rums, main roads, and sacred areas. The case of Capua is also discussed, where the structures identified as macellum pose difficulties of interpretation. The second part of the work analyses examples of commercial areas in connection with the entrance to the city, in correspondence of focal points into the city planning, such as sea and river port...
In last 15 years of archaeological excavations at Senigallia have been studied new ceramic contexts ...
Markets are the place where demand meets supply, but most importantly they are areas for sociality. ...
Il volume tratta dei rinvenimenti di apprestamenti con anfore a Vicenza, li analizza attraverso un q...
The macellum, as one of the main market buildings in the Roman city, must have provoked two importan...
A Roman macellum was a place of daily interaction for many people of varied economic status, citizen...
While the remains of the well‐preserved and excavated towns of Pompeii, Ostia and Herculaneum provid...
A macellum in ancient Rome was a marketbuilding, distinct from the city´s loud noice and throng. The...
International audienceThis paper is a contribution to the debate on stations along the Roman roads i...
We are living in a consumer society and we are used to doing some shop in “commercial streets” or “s...
Ci s’interroga sulla logistica del venalicium, cioè di quel tipo di mercato, le cui transazioni, muo...
The imperial streets of Ostia and Rome – as they appear on the severian Forma Urbis Romae – were ed...
The aim of research is the reconstruction of Vicenza commercial traffics, in Roman age, by the anali...
Il mercato, come nel caso di Roma, è all'origine della città e rappresenta motivo di successo di mol...
The starting point for this paper is a recent publication on Rome’s suburbia, dealing with a period ...
The analysis of the archeological material, especially ceramic, found to Egnazia during the archaeol...
In last 15 years of archaeological excavations at Senigallia have been studied new ceramic contexts ...
Markets are the place where demand meets supply, but most importantly they are areas for sociality. ...
Il volume tratta dei rinvenimenti di apprestamenti con anfore a Vicenza, li analizza attraverso un q...
The macellum, as one of the main market buildings in the Roman city, must have provoked two importan...
A Roman macellum was a place of daily interaction for many people of varied economic status, citizen...
While the remains of the well‐preserved and excavated towns of Pompeii, Ostia and Herculaneum provid...
A macellum in ancient Rome was a marketbuilding, distinct from the city´s loud noice and throng. The...
International audienceThis paper is a contribution to the debate on stations along the Roman roads i...
We are living in a consumer society and we are used to doing some shop in “commercial streets” or “s...
Ci s’interroga sulla logistica del venalicium, cioè di quel tipo di mercato, le cui transazioni, muo...
The imperial streets of Ostia and Rome – as they appear on the severian Forma Urbis Romae – were ed...
The aim of research is the reconstruction of Vicenza commercial traffics, in Roman age, by the anali...
Il mercato, come nel caso di Roma, è all'origine della città e rappresenta motivo di successo di mol...
The starting point for this paper is a recent publication on Rome’s suburbia, dealing with a period ...
The analysis of the archeological material, especially ceramic, found to Egnazia during the archaeol...
In last 15 years of archaeological excavations at Senigallia have been studied new ceramic contexts ...
Markets are the place where demand meets supply, but most importantly they are areas for sociality. ...
Il volume tratta dei rinvenimenti di apprestamenti con anfore a Vicenza, li analizza attraverso un q...